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Ringfort - rath

Knockbrack (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockbrack, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockbrack (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lissydeela
Latest-edition OS map
Lissydeela (1916)
Coordinates
52.94996, -9.30712
SMR number
CL015-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on the summit of a low SE-facing rise skirted by a minor road to the S, and c. 50m to the W of a small S-flowing tributary of the Inagh River. Hachured and labelled ‘Lissydeela’ on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1910, 3) linked the site-name to the literary figure Daelech, one of a group of Firbolg displaced to the western Irish seaboard. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular bivallate rath (42m ESE-WNW) is defined by a substantial inner flat-topped earth-and-gravel bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 2.1m; ext. H 1m), a fosse (Wth 4.5m) and a second, outer bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 2m; ext. H 0.4m). The enclosing elements are heavily overgrown and the interior slopes gently down to SE. 

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 8-10-2025

References

Westropp, T.J. 1910 A study of early forts and stone huts in Inishmore, Aran Isles, Galway Bay. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29, 174-201.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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